Out of' Box Office'

Trust me we weren't a flop team but being a member of a cost center in a sales aggressive profit centric organisation the days that you would have spent working in the head Office were always numbered. From the day we stepped in fresh from campus we heard more from our colleagues and seniors about a possible shift than about anything else.
Well finally after about 10 months we were told to roll up our LAN cables and let the hardware engineers dismantle our PCs. We were shifting to a new location,which some of us including me had never heard of. Few of my colleagues who stayed near the new office wore the brightest smiles while rest of us discussed the best options to commute. Of the various options available the best and most lucrative was to shift to Andheri.The reasons seemed logical..closer to office meant a lot of time saved commuting,less time spent in traffic jams and with a few multiplexes coming up in the adjoining areas the opportunities of entertainment on weekends were not one to be doubted about.

However this meant that going to Bandra would be a 'distant' dream and having got used to crossing a subway and marching my way into the 'queen' of Suburban Mumbai I had second thoughts about moving to Andheri. Totally confused as i am always, yet more. The topic of discussion in every forum at office was either on grievances on being treated like a step kid thrown into the darkness of 'Andhera'ee or regarding opportunities elsewhere. While the gossip market was boiling with emotional temperatures soaring I was busy looking for a place to live in Andheri to which i never wanted to shift. Yet,as I cannot remember the last time I did what I wanted to do I went on a full scale house search in Andheri.

On the other hand my flatmate got transferred to Delhi and after bidding him farewell,here I was alone in a 2 bedroom apartment. Calculations were on regarding how much I would save,how much would I spend,blah blah,but the truth still remained I did not want to shift....